The Human Bone Manual

by Tim D. White, Pieter Arend Folkens, Pieter A. Folkens

Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0120884674
• ISBN13: 9780120884674
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

The Human Bone Manual

This smaller sized and waterproofed manual is a excellent portable bone guide for anyone working in archaeology.

This book makes my bones rattle. In a good way.

As far as forensic books go, it's very well-written, with good illustrations, and is very cost-efficient and easy to carry around. Aimed at field work, so the pointers (i.e. which bones are potentially confused with others) are very helpful. Could use some color and more diagrams, but for the price I paid for it, I'm not complaining.

The Human Bone Manual

Excellent reference for travelling and field work as it's half the size of the original edition. I have the original and bought this anyway. The photography is excellent and it gives you a number of views of each element, and examples of normal variation. It also manages not to leave out anything important even though it is smaller (I compared the chapters with the larger edition). But don't rely on this for exhaustive terminology; it's not meant to be a dictionary.

Handy book

As a physical anthropology grad student, I am finding this book to be very useful. The hardcover text is great, but this is transportable and packed with information. Would highly recommend it to anyone in forensics, anthropology.

Fantastic guide.

This manual is a somewhat more consise version of Dr. White's Osteology textbook. Excellent for anyone with any need to understand the human skeleton in depth. Clearly and assessibly written and includes fantastic pictures, indexes of directional terms, etc. Used widely on archaeological digs the world over.